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TOP SECRET: Your Briefing on the CIA's Cold-War Spy Satellite, 'Big Bird'
The Atlantic ^ | December 29, 2011 | Alexis Madrigal

Posted on 01/01/2012 12:14:42 AM PST by neverdem

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To: _Jim

Maybe a little more research is in order. I’m thinking NSA.


41 posted on 01/02/2012 4:58:07 AM PST by Rappini (Pro Deo et Patria)
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To: Rappini
Maybe a little more research is in order.
What? The NSA is 'running' your local telco operation? (They don't run ours and DIDN'T run our MTSO switch when I was with ATT WS in the 90's ... if you would get out of the basement and get a real job in the real world you would not believe all these 'ccok and bull' stories fed your way.)

Sheesh ... some of you ppl are 'off the planet'.

Find a REAL person at the REAL phone company and ask them those questions I gave you earlier ...

I've worked in this field and seen the hardware; 99.999% of you have not.

Now, wiretaps (an individual 'number') and monitoring trunk circuits en mass in and out of the country are a different matter ...

42 posted on 01/02/2012 5:54:28 PM PST by _Jim (Conspiracy theories are the favored tools of the weak-minded.)
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To: _Jim

Since when is being a lineman a real job?


43 posted on 01/03/2012 5:19:17 AM PST by Rappini (Pro Deo et Patria)
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To: neverdem; Marine_Uncle; blam; NormsRevenge; SunkenCiv; SierraWasp; TigersEye
Fascinating stuff,...thanks for posting!

I was a college student studying math and physics when spuknik went up.

44 posted on 01/04/2012 10:36:42 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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just dropping a link here...to Wikipedia:

KH-11 Kennan

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the KH-11 was the first American spy satellite to utilize electro-optical digital imaging, and create a real-time optical observation capability.[3]

45 posted on 01/04/2012 11:02:37 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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KH-11 was the first reconnaissance satellite equipped with Charge-coupled device (CCD) array technology for imaging. Data is transmitted through a network of communications satellites; the Satellite Data System.[1] The initial ground station for the processing of the electro-optical imaging was a secret National Reconnaissance Office facility in Area 58, located in the continental United States.[8]

46 posted on 01/04/2012 11:06:01 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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After the failure of the Boeing led Future Imagery Architecture program in 2005, NRO ordered from Lockheed two additional legacy hardware KH-11s. USA-224, the first of these two, was launched in early 2011 two years ahead of schedule, and US $ 2 billion under the initial budget estimate.[11]

Four generations of U.S. electro-optical reconnaissance have been identified:[12][13]

47 posted on 01/04/2012 11:09:05 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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Implied links in my above postings will give code 404...go directly to Wikipedia ...se link at post # 45.


48 posted on 01/04/2012 11:11:55 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

The big eye ball in the sky. :)


49 posted on 01/04/2012 4:18:45 PM PST by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
This program was significant in producing equipment/instruments (spin-offs) for improving the quality of micro-chips. Defects were reduced enormously.

See the Perkin-Elmer projection printer in 1973 (again in 1981) at this link.

50 posted on 01/04/2012 5:30:01 PM PST by blam
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To: Rappini
"Since when is being a lineman a real job?"

You have now 'jumped the shark'; who said anything about a 'lineman'?

Go back and re-read for content once in your life; note the term 'switch engineer'.

51 posted on 01/17/2012 3:57:27 PM PST by _Jim (Conspiracy theories are the favored tools of the weak-minded.)
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Hey Jim, you are starting to bring new meaning to the word Chill. Lighten up dude.


52 posted on 01/18/2012 5:31:25 AM PST by Rappini (Pro Deo et Patria)
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